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List Price: $14.96 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 14510
Released: March 25, 2003 |
| Our Price: $2.99 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Femme Fatale is a contemporary film noir about an alluring seductress (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) suddenly exposed to the world -- and her enemies -- by a voyeuristic photographer (Antonio Banderas) who becomes ensnared in her surreal quest for revenge.
Description of Femme Fatale:
The sheer pleasure of watching movies is celebrated in Brian De Palma's dazzling Femme Fatale. Working from his own intricate screenplay, De Palma indulges all of his trademark obsessions, upping the ante on Hitchcock (again) with a Vertigo-like plot that begins with an audacious heist at the Cannes film festival (another sexy, violent tour de force for De Palma). From there, the stunning thief Laure (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) assumes a new identity, marries a U.S. senator (Peter Coyote), and returns to Paris where a tenacious paparazzo (Antonio Banderas) becomes a patsy in her multilayered scheme. De Palma's weaving a web of nonsense, but his plotting is so exuberantly absurd--and his frame so full of visual clues and relevant detail--that Femme Fatale becomes a joyous thrill ride at first encounter, and a crazily logical (and grandly rewarding) movie on subsequent viewings. In her best role to date, Romijn-Stamos is everything you'd want a femme fatale to be, in a thriller that constantly challenges you to question what you're seeing. --Jeff Shannon
Femme Fatale Reviews:
Muy buena película. Excelente actuación de Banderas 
2009-04-18 - Es una película a la europea, muy buena donde se puede ver a Antonio Banderas desplegando todo su talento. Rebecca Romjin está bellísima y super fatal, muy bien dirigida, nada menos que por el gran Brian de Palma. Es una trama complicada que normalmente te invita a verla 2 veces para coger cada detalle que de Palma quiere transmitir.
La excena sexual en el Festival de Cine está muy bien lograda.
"I'm A Bad Girl..."
2009-03-24 - ...so purrs Rebecca Romijn-Stamos' Laure to Antonio Banderas' Nicholas Bardo. RRS is breathtakingly beautiful and a damn fine actress to boot in DePalma's stylish thriller. Also, Banderas' comedy chops took me by surprise. Other reviewers have commented that you either love or hate this movie, so place me in the former category. This is a triumph of technique and visually stunning. The story line by DePalma himself is as convoluted and fantastically contrived as any he has come up with, but that only adds to the entertainment factor for me - and makes me want to watch it again and again. Much like SNAKE EYES or MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, the plot is difficult to follow but rewarding nonetheless. This is a story of sleight of hand and features trickery of every imaginable variety.
As for the setting in France, I found the French language annoying, but the atmosphere created by the director was mesmerizing. DePalma's commentary in the Special Features section was enlightening and added to the enjoyment of this disk.
As someone else said, typical DePalma... 
2009-02-18 - meaning it starts with what's an extremely interesting plot, loaded with great possibilities, and instead of becoming a great film, sinks into illogical sludge. It's a shame, too, because DePalma obviously has talent...he just seems to lack follow-through. The ending isn't wry or clever or cinematic art -- it's senseless and leaves the viewer feeling cheated.
FEMME FATALE IS DE PALMA'S BEST IN YEARS
2008-05-19 - Without doubt FEMME FATALE is De Palma's best film in years. I bought the dvd, knowing the film didn't do well at the cinema, but so what? It doesn't mean it's a crap film! I saw the film and was knocked by it. The plot with its twists and turns, and throughout the film, the clues are there, as to what might or not might happen. Rebecca Romijn is gorgeous (I read that that Uma Thurman was mentioned for the role), but Romijn is more sexy in the part of Laura Ash. In my opinion Thurman isn't even attractive. Bandereas ids good as are everyboy else in the film. De Palma is the king of erotic thrillers and no one is better than him, even his other thrillers like SCARFACE, DRESSED TO KILL, BLOW OUT CARLITO'S WAY etc. De Palma is the best!
BRIAN DE PALMA, OPUS 26
2008-03-30 - ***** 2002. Written and directed by Brian De Palma. A woman manipulates a photographer in order to escape her former accomplices she fooled seven years before. Another masterpiece from the American master who delivers a stunning and smart movie about dreams. Too bad that the film lost a lot of money at the box-office. Brian De Palma was given a total liberty by his producer Tarik Ben Ammar to shoot the film he wanted to present to the audience. As the director explains in one of the featurettes of the DVD, FEMME FATALE is a film that can be seen several times and still reserve some goodies to an attentive viewer. Once you're aware of the main surprise of the film, you'll be then really able to appreciate the work of Brian De Palma on details you didn't notice during the first vision of FEMME FATALE. A DVD zone your library.
